Note: Italy has introduced a unique system of nation-wide qualification for appointing Professors and Associate Professors, the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale. Similar in purpose to the Habilitation in some other European countries, the process involves evaluation of research and publications by a national committee within each academic field for permanent appointment or subsequent promotion. The rate of success for applicants to the Associate Professor level (seconda fascia), for the four-year period December 2013 – December 2017, was 41% in Political Philosophy, and 36% in History of Political Thought. The Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale confers the qualification required for a permanent academic position, but not an actual position.

2012-14 Member of the Research Team "Marx's Capital and its Preparatory Manuscripts". Host institution: School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan - China, supported by the Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China [Project 11JZD004] [CNY 800.000].

2012 “The International Working Men's Association 150 Years Later”, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant [CAN $ 75.000]. Approved by the selection committee but placed on the supplementary list due to insufficient funds.

2011-12 Co-Investigator, “Digital Archive, Lexicon and Bibliography of Marxian Crisis Theory and its Global Reception”, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [Project 23243035]. Research Coordinator of Team 3, international collaboration on “Marx's Theory of Economic Crisis: a Worldwide Bibliography” [Y 10.000.000].

2009 Faculty Research Program, International Council for Canadian Studies, Ottawa – Canada, “The Financial Crisis In Canada: A Chronicle of Events, with a Consideration of the ‘Canadian Model’ and a Comparison with the United States” [CAN $ 4.550].

2005 Scholarship from the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC), “Marx in Paris, the Critique of 1844: Study of Intellectual Biography”. Host institution: University of Amsterdam – Netherlands. [€ 3.510]

The central purposes of my work have been: 1) to reconstruct the stages of Marx’s critique of capitalism in light of the most recent textual acquisitions of MEGA²; 2) to provide a new critical comparison between Marx and 19th and 20th century’s Marxisms; 3) to highlight the contemporary relevance of Marx for pressing current issues.

Amomg my other research interests there are: Socialist thought, history of the labour movement, post-Hegelian philosophy, theories of alienation, theory of democracy, and contemporary European politics - all topics on which I have published articles or I have edited anthologies and collections.

PRINCIPAL TEACHING FIELDS:

My main teaching fields have been: political thought from 16th to 20th Century, sociological theory, Marxism, political philosophy from 18th to 20th Century, history of ideas, social movements, globalization, and sociology of knowledge.

Palgrave-Macmillan, Series of Economics, Finance, Business and Management.

Bloomsbury, Series of Philosophy.

Pluto Press.

(D) Reviewing - Journals:

Current Sociology (SAGE Publications).

PUBLICATIONS:

Summary:

I have published extensively in a total of 24 languages (including translations). These publications comprise three monographs (two published and one forthcoming in 2017); seven edited books, originally in English or Italian (reprinted in 27 editions, with translation into eight languages); and 30 separate refereed articles and chapters that have appeared as a total of more than 130 publications (not counting short articles, book reviews, journalism and interviews).

The list of publication has been ordered by placing the English version first, followed by the translations in other languages underneath. Those writings which have not been published into English have been ordered in the language in which they appeared first.

2. [English reprint] “Documents from the International Workingmen's Association” [Selection and introductory notes], in George Comninel, Marcello Musto and Victor Wallis (eds), The International After 150 Years: Labour Versus Capital, Then and Now, New York–London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 39-58.

“Notes on the History of the International”, Socialism and Democracy, vol. 28, no. 2 (July 2014): 5-38.

9. [English reprint] “On the History and Legacy of the First International”, in George Comninel - Marcello Musto - Victor Wallis (eds), The International After 150 Years: Labour Versus Capital, Then and Now, New York–London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 5-38.

“Dissemination and reception of the Grundrisse in the world. Introduction”, in Marcello Musto (Ed.), Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later, London–New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 177-188.

12. [English reprint], “Dissemination and reception of the Grundrisse in the world. Introduction”, in Marcello Musto (Ed.), Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later, New Delhi: Manohar, 2013, pp. 177-188.

“Marx’s life at the time of the Grundrisse. Biographical notes on 1857-8”, in Marcello Musto (Ed.) Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later, London–New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 147-161.

8. [English reprint], “Marx’s life at the time of the Grundrisse. Biographical notes on 1857-8”, in Marcello Musto (Ed.), Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later, New Delhi: Manohar, 2013, pp. 147-161.

“History, production and method in the ‘1857 Introduction’”, in Marcello Musto (Ed.) Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later, London–New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 3-32.

6. [English reprint], “History, production and method in the ‘1857 Introduction’”, in Marcello Musto (Ed.), Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later, New Delhi: Manohar, 2013, pp. 3-32.

2014, Oct. 24-Nov. 3 (with Ricardo Antunes) Organization of 7 International Conferences on “Associação Internacional das Trabalhadoras e dos Trabalhadores, 150 anoinviteds Depois” hold at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Campinas State University (UNICAMP), University ofSão Paulo (USP), The Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Federal University do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Federal University of Bahia (UFBa), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) [40 participants, from 12 countries].

2012, Mar. 16-18 Organization of the panels “Marx's Early Writings: Once More onto the Breach. Part I”; “Marx's Early Writings: Once More onto the Breach. Part II”; “The Left in the Crisis Today”; “Crisis and Capitalism Today: Interpretations and Interventions” at the “Left Forum 2011”, Pace University, New York City (USA) [24 participants, from 9 countries].

2011, Mar. 18–20 Organization of the panels “Marx for Today. Part I: Re-reading Marx in 2010”; “Marx for Today. Part II: Marx’s Global Reception Today”; “The Anticapitalist Left in the World Today”; “The Grundrisse: Another Marx?”; “China and Marxism: Theory and Practice in Transition” at the “Left Forum 2011”, Pace University, New York City (USA) [24 participants, from 10 countries].

2009, Nov. 6-8 Organization of the panels “Rethinking the Young Marx. Part I and II” (with Norman Levine); “Marx’s Grundrisse 150 Years Later. Part I and II” and “The Return of Marx” at the Seventh International Conference of the journal Rethinking Marxism “New Marxian Times”, University of Massachussets, Amherst (USA) [18 participants, from 6 countries].

2004, Apr. 1-3. International Conference “On the Tracks of a Spectre. The Works of Karl Marx between Philology and Philosophy”, University of Naples, Naples “Suor Orsola Benincasa” (Italy) [30 participants, from 10 countries].

(B) Organization of York University Seminars:

2014, Mar. 11. “'Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?': Feminism and Masculinities in Theory and Practice”, Terrell Carver (University of Bristol, Britain), 2014 Sociology Annual Lecture, Department of Sociology.

2012, Jan. 17. “Hegel and Marx on State and civil society”, Norman Levine (University ofMaryland, USA), Department of Political Science.

2016, Feb. 16. “Another Marx: The indiscrete Charm of Incompleteness”, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory – School of International Study, New Delhi (India).

2010, Jul. 24. Presented Paper, “The Grundrisse’s Global Dissemination and Reception”, at the International Conference “Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later”, Central Compilation & Translation Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Beijing (China).

2010, Jul. 17. Presented Paper, “History, Totality of Production and Scientific Method in the ‘1857 Introduction’”, at the International Conference “Marx and Contemporary Social Theory”, Fudan University, Shanghai (China).

2009, Nov. 7. Chair, “Marx’s Grundrisse 150 Years Later. Part I” at the Seventh International Conference of the journal Rethinking Marxism “New Marxian Times”, University of Massachussets, Amherst (USA).

2009, Nov. 7. Chair, “Marx’s Grundrisse 150 Years Later. Part II” at the Seventh International Conference of the journal Rethinking Marxism “New Marxian Times”, University of Massachussets, Amherst (USA).

2009, Nov. 6. Chair, “Rethinking the Young Marx. Part II” at the Seventh International Conference of the journal Rethinking Marxism “New Marxian Times”, University of Massachussets, Amherst (USA).

2009, Nov. 6. Presented paper, “Marx in Paris: Manuscripts and Notebooks of 1844” at the Seventh International Conference of the journal Rethinking Marxism “New Marxian Times”, University of Massachussets, Amherst (USA).

2006, Dec. 9. Presented paper, “Dissemination and reception of the Manifesto of the Communist Party in Italy”, at the International Colloquium "Manifesto of the Communist Party in the world", Rikkyo University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan).

2011 - 2014 Center for “Western Marxism and Social Development”, China University of Political Science & Law (CUPL) of Beijing [Triennial series of lecture presentations, comprising travel, accommodation and honoraria].